this is a labour of love, from a small development team. who have spent countless personal hours, away from our girlfriends, loved ones, lives to do this not for personal gain, not for money, not for fame, but for the sheer reason of we wanted something that was great, that was what we wanted. and this is exactly that. it is no where near perfect, or bug free, but we felt like it's enough for general use, and testing.

this is a beta release, for everyone to test, we are pushing out new features, and code rewrites, and with that, bugs. so feel free to test, report bugs, suggest things, but only if you have logs, or are able to recreate the bug.

there will be weekly builds released to general public following this release, and for our beta testers, there will be more frequent releases.

we have added the ability to log into forums using your credentials. we will hash your mac address (md5) and store it in your profile, which is not viewable by public. it will be used to identify you for beta updates and other updates. if you do not log in, we will be unable to add you to beta release groups and other things. it is completely up to you, felt the need to inform you so you are not surprised.

we have moved to a sqlite database for this release, so no more fsd2data, xml's are needed.

1) If you have a previous version of FreeStyleDash installed, you will need to make a backup and delete/remove it. (IMPORTANT) Do not run this from CD/DVD as it may sometime require write access to game:\

3) Launch default.xex using a method that is easy for you. (Dashlaunch, XeXmenu, Etc)

a) Add game path's in setting menu, and please read the next note carefully before complaining.

*** NOTE ***

On the first scan, please allow it to completely scan/download content, do not interrupt it, Reboot xbox, or try to play around FSD too much.

If an error occurs it is best to start from scratch again until the first scan / download is 100%. All scans after the first will be fast/and stable.

You can press R3 (Right thumb stick) to see what's going on in status bar, and view your ip.

There is a FTP server and webserver included with FSD 2.0-Beta, so feel free to log into FTP with xbox as user and password.Webserver will be http://your-ip

This is labeled as a beta, and with such, bugs will be in the application, if you feel like you're constantly gettingbugs and able to recreate them or at least describe them with some detail, please visit our forums (www.teamfsd.com) andpost the bug/description along with the crash log. The forums will be used now for bug reports until we find a better wayto track issues.

I've just installed it, looking good so far, although at first I was a bit worried because it couldn't see any of my games. I configured my game paths in the settings and i found them all just fine. It's scanning and downloading the covers/screenshots as I type this